{"product_id":"the-jazz-masters-setting-the-record-straight-hardcover","title":"The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter C. Zimmerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of jazz and the men and women who created and transformed it. In the twenty-one conversations contained in this engaging and highly accessible book, we hear from the musicians themselves, in their own words, direct and unfiltered. Peter Zimmerman's interviewing technique is straightforward. He turns on a recording device, poses questions, and allows his subjects to improvise, similar to the way the musicians do at concerts and in recording sessions. Topics range from their early days, their struggles and victories, to the impact the music has had on their own lives. The interviews have been carefully edited for sense and clarity, without changing any of the musicians' actual words. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter Zimmerman tirelessly sought virtuosi whose lives span the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The reader is rewarded with an intimate look into the past century's extraordinary period of creative productivity. The oldest two interview subjects were born in 1920 and all are professional musicians who worked in jazz for at least five decades, with a few enjoying careers as long as seventy-five years. These voices reflect some seventeen hundred years of accumulated experience yielding a chronicle of incredible depth and scope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe focus on musicians who are now emeritus figures is deliberate. Some of them are now in their nineties; six have passed since 2012, when Zimmerman began researching \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Masters\u003c\/i\u003e. Five of them have already received the NEA's prestigious Jazz Masters award: Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Yusef Lateef, Jimmy Owens, and most recently, Dick Hyman. More undoubtedly will one day, and the balance are likewise of compelling interest. Artists such as David Amram, Charles Davis, Clifford Jordan, Valery Ponomarev, and Sandy Stewart, to name a few, open their hearts and memories and reveal who they are as people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a labor of love celebrating the vibrant style of music that Dizzy Gillespie once described as \"our native art form.\" Zimmerman's deeply knowledgeable, unabashed passion for jazz brings out the best in the musicians. Filled with personal recollections and detailed accounts of their careers and everyday lives, this highly readable, lively work succeeds in capturing their stories for present and future generations. An important addition to the literature of music, \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Masters\u003c\/i\u003e goes a long way toward \"setting the record straight.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter C. Zimmerman \u003c\/b\u003ehas been a music writer for more than three decades, interviewing everyone from Waylon Jennings to \"Bootsy\" Collins, and is author of \u003ci\u003eTennessee Music: Its People and Places\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePodunk: Ramblin' to America's Small Places in a Dilapidated Delta 88\u003c\/i\u003e. He is longtime editor of Odyssey Guides of Hong Kong and lives in the foothills of New York's Catskill Mountains. Zimmerman can be reached at podunkpete@gmail.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58181188550737,"sku":"9781496832221","price":183.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/dTMzWlpsS3dTazIyUHd4YVl6ZU9pZz09.webp?v=1757267742","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/products\/the-jazz-masters-setting-the-record-straight-hardcover","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}